Magdalenabradys
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pilosa |
| Family: | †Mylodontidae |
| Tribe: | †Lestodontini |
| Genus: | †Magdalenabradys Rincón and McDonald, 2020 |
| Type species | |
| †Magdalenabradys confusum Hirschfeld (1985)
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Pseudoprepotherium confusum Hirschfeld (1985) | |
Magdalenabradys is an extinct genus of mylodontid ground sloths that lived during the Middle Miocene and Early Pliocene of whatis now Colombia and Venezuela. Fossils have been found in the Villavieja Formation of the Honda Group in Colombia, and the Urumaco Formation in Venezuela.
Discovery
Etymology
The generic name, Magdalenabradys is derived from the Magdalena River, in which the type specimen was found and confusum meaning "confused" in reference to the fact that it has originally been confused with Pseudoprepotherium. A second species, M. kolossiaia, was named in 2020. The specific epithet means "colossal".[1]
Description
Taxonomy
Paleoecology
References
- ^ Ascanio D. Rincón; H. Gregory McDonald (2020). "Reexaminación de las relaciones de Pseudoprepotherium Hoffstetter, 1961, con los perezosos terrestres Mylodontidos del Mioceno del Norte de América del Sur". Revista Geológica de América Central. 63. doi:10.15517/rgac.v62i0.41278 (inactive 28 February 2022).
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